…. It would increase the shredding of the social fabric. Now is not the time for the state to enact this type of law. If we are honest about the inherent dangers, there will never be such a time. Lisa Blumberg is a Hartford-area lawyer, writer and disability rights activist. [1] The online article incorrectly stated that there were 91 nursing home deaths per “100,000 nursing home residents” instead of per “100,000 state residents.” See https://www….
…ed on this Hate Crime: A killing rampage targets disabled people and on an ONLINE VIGIL FOR THE MURDERED DISABLED PEOPLE OF SAGAMIHARA. We also wrote a Statement on the First Anniversary of the Sagamihara Murders in support of those holding an event in remembrance of the lives lost. Disability activists in Japan are now protesting a decision to hold the Paralympic Torch ceremony at the site of this horrific massacre, an institution which symbolize…
…policy. These concerns do not come from political or religious affiliation, and they should not be dismissed as such. Cathy Ludlum, Manchester Online link is to all the letters in today’s paper is here….
…recognition of this fact, when the New England Journal of Medicine held an online poll in 2013, its invented case was a man with metastatic pancreatic cancer, with pain well-controlled. Two thirds of respondents, by the way, opposed legalization. We disabled people have lives that frequently look like the lives of people requesting assisted suicide, but we reject as bizarre the notion that personal dignity is somehow lost through physical dependen…
…s:“Doyouthinkyouhavetherighttoendyourownlife?” (justassloppyandastheshow’s onlinesurvey, conflating suicide with assisted suicide, conflating the right to refuse treatment with assisted suicide). Thefinalsegmentwassupposedtobequestionsandcommentsfromtheaudience.Weweredividedbyanaisle into pro and con.Duringthebreak,Nadinamanagedtogettheattentionoftheproducer,Greg,whointerviewedusbeforetheshow.“Dr.Ozdidn’tletmespeak,” shetoldhim.“NDYershaveauniquep…
